If you are employed by a public company, it's likely that your company will undergo an SEC enforcement investigation within the next five years. This article shows in-house counsel how to help guide their company through an SEC enforcement action.
A white paper addressing whistleblower protection and the emerging law of retaliatory discharge of in-house counsel.
Discusses how your corporation can contribute to political campaigns without running afoul of federal or local law.
This Wisdom of the Crowd (ACC member discussion) addresses whether physicians and hospitals can offer compensation to persons providing referrals. This resource was compiled from questions and responses posted on the forum of the Health Law Committee ACC Network.
The Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) changed the rules of class action lawsuits to alleviate problems with forum-shopping and limit the number of interstate class action suits decided in state courts that have little, if any, connection to the case or controversy. But in the short term, CAFA could wind up making class action suits more protracted, and quite costly to corporate defendants. Read how to navigate the potholes, detours, pit stops, and dangerous curves of the statute.
This resource discusses cyber-risk, the threat that data breaches can hold and what Directors should do to protect their companies in the United States. This is resource is part of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Handbook Series.
This issue discusses in-house salaries, electronic monitoring in the global workplace, building successful relationships with work councils in Europe, and more.
This article argues that the path of Chinese land reform better fits a “bundle of sticks” than “law of things” view of property rights. It also examines the recent policy developments following the third plenum of the 18th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and finds that policy makers have stuck to the stick by stick approach.
The plaintiffs in this action are three hospitals affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. The hospitals have entered into contracts with a health maintenance organization, UPMC Health Plan, to provide medical services and supplies to individuals enrolled in its coverage program.
This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) provides a practical guide to a Q&A that gives an overview of the legal system; foreign investment, including restrictions, currency regulations and incentives; and business vehicles and their relevant restrictions and liabilities in Germany.